Making the Connections

SAT II Math Content	Approximate % of Test
Number and operations Operations, ratio and proportion, complex numbers, counting, elementary number theory, matrices, sequences, series, vectors	10%–14%
Algebra and functions Expressions, equations, inequalities, representation and modeling, properties of functions (linear, polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic, trigonometric, inverse trigonometric, periodic, piecewise, recursive, parametric)	48%–52%
Geometry and measurement	28%—32%
Coordinate Lines, parabolas, circles, ellipses, hyperbolas, symmetry, transformations, polar coordinates	10%—14%
Three-dimensional Solids, surface area and volume (cylinders, cones, pyramids, spheres, prisms), coordinates in three dimensions	4%–6%
Trigonometry Right triangles, identities, radian measure, law of cosines, law of sines, equations, double angle formulas	12%—16%
Data analysis, statistics and probability Mean, median, mode, range, interquartile range, standard deviation, graphs and plots, least squares regression (linear, quadratic, exponential), probability	8%—12%